January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
11 posts
Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...
– David Foster Wallace
Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see...
– Cherríe Moraga
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its...
– Haruki Murakami
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and...
– Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol: In His Own Words
I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
– John Steinbeck
November 2011
7 posts
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...
– Agatha Christie
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...
– Calvin Coolidge
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to...
– Charles Bukowski
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...
– Steve Jobs
October 2011
14 posts
You don’t get to have everything or everyone you want. And a lifetime of wanting...
– Miranda July
Don’t let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...
– Agatha Christie
September 2011
26 posts
Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt,...
– Steven Pressfield in one of 5 timeless insights on transcending fear in the creative process
… if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we...
– Ivan Turgenev died on September 3, 1883
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...
– Ray Bradbury
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
– Lao Tzu
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...
– E. E. Cummings died on September 3, 1962